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People Power

Ed Miliband is due to give the Hugo Young Lecture next week. It comes at a time when the opposition is starting to show its...

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Mind the gap

GCSE figures released last week show that the gap in attainment between richer and poorer students is widening. Demos analysis of the latest figures show that, in...

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Ties that Bind

In Scotland and beyond, public services now share a common ambition: to tailor services to the needs of individuals. This report explores the potential for...

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Creating competition

This week, the stranglehold that high street banks have over key bank services – like current accounts, small business lending, and mortgages – came back...

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Government as ‘shop steward’

Last week I posted the first blog in a short series on what a new Department for Economic Reform might look to do and how. Below is the next...

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The true cost of the cap

The benefit cap statistics released last week provoked predictable reactions – finding 33,000 households were subject to the cap led the Daily Mail to label...

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Heads up: Bitcoin

Vires in Numeris – ‘Strength in Numbers’ – is the motto printed on the back of  a minted Bitcoin: a decentralised peer-to-peer digital crypto-currency. It...

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Irrational Optimists

Since the economic downturn, the vast majority of Britons have been facing a cost of living crisis. This report looks at how the UK’s middle...